2014 Apprentice of the Year: Mitchell Dowling

Mitchell is currently employed by Link Employment and Training as an apprentice and is hosted with Laser 3D in Dandenong. Mitch made the decision to leave his well paying job as a manager at Coles to pursue an apprenticeship.

His manager has stated that Mitch has built an excellent rapport with other workers on the production team and has assumed responsibility for running and programming all of the 5 axis rotary cutting work and has demonstrated great maturity and capabilities to be a future leader.

Mitch also is an active volunteer in the local community as a camp leader at the Lord Somers Powerhouse camps on the Mornington peninsula.

Mitchell also completed the “Today’s Skills, Tomorrow’s Leaders” program in 2014.